The period instrument ensemble and lutenist Paul O’Dette perform Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noel, concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, and French carols.

The Windsbach Boys’ Choir of Nuremberg in concert with the Classic Brass Ensemble, directed by Martin Lehmann.

Jonathan Miller shares music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.

Meaning ‘star of birth,’ Jenkins’s 2009 Stella Natalis conveys the Christmas message of peace, goodwill, compassion and a new beginning.

On December 19, 1986, Studs Terkel observed Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, with this jubilant musical performance by Chicago’s Maxwell Street Klezmer band.

The New York Philharmonic’s annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah is one of its most loved traditions.

Baroque&Before begins the holiday season with The Renaissance Men vocal ensemble, which performs Christmas mass by the Meissen school cantor Wolfgang Figulus.

A selection of winter-themed highlights from the New York Philharmonic’s storied discography.

The United States Coast Guard Band Saxophone Quartet visited WFMT when they were in Chicago for the 2017 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. This Impromptu includes music for the holiday season.

During this festive Impromptu from 2015, members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performed a pair of the great Brandenburg Concertos by Bach: No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050, and No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051.

Vocalists Erin Morley, Phyllis Pancella, John Tessier, and Eric Owens are featured in cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Grab your calendar and tune in for WFMT’s recommendations for the best choral concerts, Messiah‘s, Nutcracker‘s, and other seasonal favorites!

A brief history of the iconic ensemble and a preview of next month’s A Chanticleer Christmas.

The Best of Studs Terkel on WFMT presents Born to Live, a long-time New Year’s broadcast tradition. Studs produced this program of interviews, spoken word, and musical responses to the nuclear age with colleague Jim Unrath in 1961. Born to Live won the Prix Italia, an award Studs described as “the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for radio and TV documentaries and …

A rebroadcast from WFMT’s late critic-at-large, in which he explores this lesser-known holiday repertory.

Highlights from the 2019 “Midnight Special” New Year’s Eve celebration, featuring John McCutcheon, Crys Matthews & Heather Mae, Shawna Caspi and Greg Greenway recorded in the Fay & Daniel Levin Studio.

Continuing a treasured holiday tradition, the Met presents a new installment in its series of abridged opera adaptations for family audiences.

A beloved tradition. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic.

Music director Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and violinist Janine Jansen in a celebratory concert.

In a wide-ranging program, Ken-David Masur conducts music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Henry Purcell, plus Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Daniel Kidane.

A festive celebration of the 1920s & 30s from the Barbican in London.

The acclaimed, Minnesota-based Rose Ensemble returns with festive and evocative early music from Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, and beyond.

Conducted by principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer, this performance features soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano; Brian Giebler, tenor; Matthew Brook, bass-baritone.

Bohola (Jimmy Keane & Pat Boaders) from the Levin Studio 12/24/2005.

A selection of villancicos, Christmas carols from Spain and Latin America, is featured on this Christmas-themed program from Fiesta. Join us for music that spans several centuries and a great diversity of influences and traditions.